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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. 5. What do these words [before me] import?
A. It notes God's perfect knowledge and abhorrence of all Idolatry, or worshipping of another God, as what he cannot endu•e to behold. Jer. 44.3, 4. Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense to serve other Gods, whom they knew not, neither they, you, nor your fathers; howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending them, saying, O do not this abominable thing that I hate.
A. It notes God's perfect knowledge and abhorrence of all Idolatry, or worshipping of another God, as what he cannot endu•e to behold. Ier. 44.3, 4. Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense to serve other Gods, whom they knew not, neither they, you, nor your fathers; howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending them, saying, O do not this abominable thing that I hate.
Q. 6. Are none guilty of this sin but heathenish Idolaters?